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Story of India’s Most Popular Audi

Vintage cars and classic India vs Pakistan cricket matches have a few common factors, they hit differently, straight in the heart, and take you back to the times when people used to adore cars like their children and celebrate India’s victory against Pakistan like a birthday party. We don’t see vintage cars often, especially Audi, frequently moving around Indian streets, as a number of them are lying disgracefully in the city junkyard. However, one Audi car is still in good condition and has an exciting story to narrate, and this Audi belongs to one of the best commentators from the Indian contingent, India’s former all-rounder and current Head-coach of the Indian cricket team, Ravi Shastri.

The world knows Ravi Shastri for his commentary, particularly for his iconic words, “Dhoni finishes off in style. A magnificent strike into the crowd! India lift the World Cup after 28 years!” when MS Dhoni, former Indian skipper, hit a humongous six against Sri Lanka pacer Nuwan Kulasekara in the 2011 ICC World Cup final. Besides this, Ravi Shastri is also known for being a part of the World Cup-winning squad of 1983 and the first Indian cricketer in domestic cricket to hammer 6 successive sixes in an over. As a cricketer and coach, Ravi Shastri has achieved a lot during his time, and one of his most outstanding achievements is winning an Audi 100 sedan during the 1985 World Championship of Cricket.

The Audi 100 was one of the most popular cars manufactured and marketed by Audi, and back in the day, it was owned by many celebrities. The company started its production in 1968, and it was available until 1994. The car Ravi Shastri won was the third-generation Audi 100, launched internationally in 1982 and during those times, there were very few luxury cars on the Indian roads owned by ordinary citizens in India. In fact, when Ravi Shastri was voted as the ‘The Champion of Champions’ and was awarded an Audi 100 sedan, India’s then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had to order Indian customs officials to waive off the heavy import duty the car required to enter the Indian territory.

How did Ravi Shastri win the Audi 100?

In 1985, after defeating spectacular West Indies cricket team in a 1983 World Cup final, the Indian cricket team was on an Australia tour to play the World Championship of Cricket (Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket) held from 17th February to 10th March 1985 along with all of the then Test match playing nations on the event of the 150th anniversary of European settlement in Victoria. Even after winning a World Cup, the Indian team was not one of the favourites to win a trophy, but unfolding another surprise package India reached the final of the World Championship of Cricket by defeating New Zealand, and on the other side, India’s arch-rival Pakistan reached the final by beating West Indies.

Ravi Shastri played tremendously well during the tournament and came up with an all-round performance where he scored 182 runs and took eight wickets in five matches. He got into a tiff with then Pakistan skipper Javed Miandad who also performed great during the tournament. In the final Match, Javed Miandad managed to score 48 runs while Ravi Shastri outperformed him with not out 63* runs and one wicket. Ravi Shastri was awarded as the Man of the Series for his stellar performance. Indian team conquered Pakistan by 8 wickets to win the World Championship of Cricket, which was held only for once in 1985, and Wisden adjudged the Indian team that won the cup as ‘The Indian Team of the Century’.

Along with the Man of the Series trophy, Ravi Shastri was awarded an Audi 100 Sedan for his performance, and soon a victorious Indian team clustered the Audi 100, occupying spots both inside and on top of the car. The allrounder drove the sedan around the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Australia, and since then, the car has become a symbol of cricketing richness in all senses. The Audi 100 sedan, which Ravi Shastri won at the World Championship of Cricket, is close to his heart and his most prized possession. He takes the car for a drive every Sunday whenever he is in Mumbai, and surprisingly he didn’t even let his father drive the car without asking for his permission.

The fashionable vintage Audi 100 owned by Ravi Shastri is currently India’s most popular Audi car and is still in pristine condition. Till today, Ravi Shastri says, the car doesn’t belong to him, it belongs to India, to the Indian cricket team, though during one of the pre-tournament meetings, when asked about sharing the car, he wasn’t ready to share the car with anyone and was prepared to do anything to win the car which he successfully earned by playing great cricket. Since then, Audi has become a prominent part of Indian cricket and signed several Indian cricketers as their brand ambassadors. Ravi Shastri has maintained the car really well, it still looks brand new, and he often gives out the car to exhibitors to showcase, as it is considered one of the first Audi cars reported in India.

What is the difference between PoW And PoS In Crypto?

Blockchain systems differ in their conception of the consensus mechanism used to carry out the essential task of verifying network data. Most public blockchain networks today use a process known as Proof of Work (PoW) or Proof of Stake (PoS) to build consensus, while private, approved blockchains and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) are structured in different ways to prioritize speed, security, and scalability. Not all blockchains are created the same and their multiple consensus mechanisms have unique implications for accessibility, security, and sustainability.

PoW is a consensus mechanism used as a method for blockchains popularized by Bitcoin (BTC). Bitcoin’s legacy proof-of-work (PoW) mechanism is considered the safest and most efficient algorithm for building consensus on a blockchain network. However, the 2020 Ethereum hack has shown that PoW is permeable and nefarious actors can exploit networks that use it.

Proof-of-stake (PoS) is an alternative consensus mechanism that delegates control over the network to token owners. A key highlight is that Bitcoin’s proof of work mechanism (PoW) is used to regulate the creation of blocks and the status of the blockchain. PoS is a consensus mechanism that allows network validates to agree on a single true record of the data history. Proof of Stake (PoS) does not require miners to solve complex mathematical puzzles to secure transactions, but rather provides economic incentives to ensure network security, unlike proof of work (PoW). Unlike PoW where miners use computers and heavy machinery to mint new blocks, PoS validators use pile coins to confirm the existence of a block.

Proof of Work (PoW), the most widely used consensus mechanism, uses computing power as its scarce resource and requires potential attackers to obtain a large portion of computing power from validators on the network. PoW is a mechanism for validating and recording transactions on a blockchain that consists of computer nodes competing with each other to generate cryptographic hashes that meet the specified level of network complexity. This theory uses economics and game theory to find a better and more efficient way to maintain network consensus.

Evidence of the work offers members of the Bitcoin network an objective opportunity to agree on the state of the blockchain and its transactions. The network complexity is designed to maintain security to deter attacks on the network, as it requires a significant amount of computing power and the operation of the necessary hardware is expensive. For example, proof of work is required for fraud prevention, security, and confidence-building in the network.

Proof of Work requires miners to perform trillions of number puzzles to produce a valid block and thanks to difficulty adjustments, miners can find a block on average every 10 minutes. Evidence of the work is random and fair because of the strong randomness of the SHA-256 Hash function that underlies its mechanism. Validators are randomly selected to create blocks and are responsible for verifying and validating blocks they have not created. Each sliver of the chain is separated from the blockchain and requires a validator to process transactions and create new blocks. Miners perform the entire validation of transactions in a POS blockchain without a validator.

PoS represents a decentralized approach to higher network and transaction speeds and is used in projects such as Cardano and ADA. A new block containing a transaction to be added to the blockchain is created by a PoS miner who decides whether or not to confirm the block. PoS offers new ways of saving energy to validate blocks that are proportional to the percentage of coins owned by miners. Competition for the POS network is based on the energy consumption of the proposed new units. PoS miners need to keep their computers and internet connection constantly active, which consumes energy. PoS blockchains require less energy compared to PoW, so it is cheaper to run the network.

In 2011 the Bitcointalk Forum proposed a new approach to address the inefficiencies of the PoW consensus mechanism by reducing the number of computing resources needed to operate a blockchain network. In recent years, blockchains have tried to switch systems like Ethereum from PoW to PoS. Ethereum plans to move to proof-of-stake in 2022 to improve the scalability of the network. To do tangible work, the new approach is based on the existence of a demonstrable share of the ecosystem. In other words, to validate a transaction on the blockchain network, a user must prove that he has a certain amount of cryptocurrency tokens that reside on the network. Once a blockchain transaction is detected, it is appended to the blockchain.

Blockchain consensus mechanism plays a key role in maintaining the security and legitimacy of block content. Blockchain networks have different methods of validating transactions in a decentralized manner, of which one is Proof of Work (PoW) and the other is Proof of Stake (PoS). Now that we understand the concept of the consensus mechanism, we should start discussing the PoW Consensus.

In a blockchain, hundreds or thousands of participants can authenticate and verify transactions in real-time. The status of the register may change to be fair in real-time, and a mechanism will be used to ensure that all participants reach a consensus on the status of this register. In centralized systems, the task of updating the blockchain is done by administrators, while cryptocurrency blockchains use a consensus mechanism in decentralized systems such as Bitcoin and Ethereum to keep an accurate record.

Blockchain companies are using blockchain technology to generate new revenue streams and transform the way they offer products and services to consumers. Blockchains build trust in corporate networks through building blocks such as shared ledgers, transparency, consensus mechanisms, and cryptography. A blockchain is a consensus mechanism that provides an agreement between different parties over the current state of the blockchain and determines when a new block of transactions should be added.

Miners can control the Bitcoin network based on the Hashcash PoW system. In Proof of Work, miners compete for the primary completion of a complex mathematical puzzle to generate a new block, meaning they are ready to cash in on a new Bitcoin reward. The Genesis block, the initial block of the PoS blockchain, is firmly coded by miners (C). Proof-of-stake is a consensus algorithm that decides who validates the next block based on the number of coins they hold (miners crack cryptographic puzzles and use computing power to verify transactions just like they do with traditional proofs of work). The probability of validating a new block is determined by the amount of effort a person makes.

How Technology is Influencing the Future of Interior Design?

We had surpassed those days when people used to hire Interior Designers after considering what kind of taste they had for colour, decor, and fabrics. Over the years, the role of an Interior Designer has changed dramatically, from creating the layout of the internal space in a building or structure manually to creating numerous designs on software and computer-aided design tools, which allows them to present their creativity in a more delicate and sophisticated way.

In a technology-driven world, humans are more prone to inventing tools that can change the perspective of our lives. Technology is serving us in almost every industry and has successfully changed how we live around. Barely a decade ago, Interior Designers were sending paper statements or meeting with every client face to face, and if you look at how they work now, it’s completely different from old-school practices. Thanks to the technology, which has been proven itself as a time-saver tool for designers.

Nowadays, being an interior designer is not limited to honing traditional interior design skills, including drawing layouts and mastering plans. To survive and thrive in today’s technology-driven world, the designer must have a deep knowledge of the latest design software, computer-aided design (CAD) tools and, of course, business skills. The interior design industry took a little while to accept and incorporate technology, but in a short span, as expected, it has influenced the future of interior design- here’s how:

Digital Drafting

Gone are the days when interior designers used to carry drafting boards and set squares. Today, the business of interior designing is more focused and based on technology which includes new-age software platforms such as AutoCAD, AutoDesk, and SketchUp. These platforms allow designers to showcase their designs digitally and help them in convincing their ideas to clients on how their office/apartment could look if they implement a particular design. The designers can convert their 2D designs into the 3D form or even in videos to help their clients understand the structure better through interactive walkthroughs.

Smart Design Tools

Technology has shielded us from head to toe, and we can’t think of a life without it. Back in the day, interior designers used to meet clients in person to discuss the design and to have a quick idea about the project, but with the arrival of technology in the field, it all vanished and was replaced with more advanced tools where designers and clients mutually prefer online meet-ups. Online communities like Houzz allow digital space for architects and interior designers to showcase their work on their website, which helps them get clients. However, word of mouth still stands tall and is considered the best marketing option in all industries.

Smart Homes

We can’t predict what the world will look like in the next 50 years, but we can surely say it would consist of smart homes, advanced robots, driverless cars, and maybe weekly mars trips. Well, here, we’re only concentrating on smart homes, which heavily influence our day-to-day world and are already everywhere. Almost every day, a new tech giant launches some connected device or gadget to attract our attention, and we can’t deny the fact that we all crave such innovations.

Google Home has already occupied the smart home market, and we can’t say no to the gadgets that offer a personal assistant and work according to our command, such as turning off the television, playing your favourite music, waking you up on time and creating schedules for you. Along with Google, Amazon has also invented a number of smart home gadgets to make our home-life smoother and smarter. Smart home gadgets can also help us control the lighting situation through our phones, set automated timers on bedroom lights, and many more.

Internet of Things (IoT)

The endless possibilities in technology are assisting us in experiencing the smart world of interiors, and the Internet of Things is unquestionably one of the finest technologies amongst them. The Internet of Things has emerged as an absolute game-changer for house owners in recent times, and it plays a crucial role in the lives of modern-day interior designers.

The IoT technology, which is entirely based on the internet, helps us define physical objects embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies to further communicate with each other and create a smart home environment. Thanks to the IoT based smart-connected gadgets and appliances, it betters interior designers to fulfil the demand of tech-savvy youth.

3D Printing

3D printing benefits interior designers to demonstrate their design quickly to the clients with the miniature model. With 3D printing, designers can unleash the best of their creativity as it allows them to implement the plan in a few hours with minimum resources, and they can even make changes according to clients’ requirements instead of traditional paper draftings, where executing changes was a complicated job. Immediate customer feedback helps designers to create a good rapport which ultimately helps them to gain more customers. Along with all these benefits, 3D printing is environmentally friendly as the miniature models can be created using natural resources such as wood and bamboo.

Sustainable Design & Micro Apartments

The interest in sustainable designs has increased over the past few years, and considering the future of the interior designing industry, it primarily relies on sustainable development. If you look at the newly constructed apartments by developers, they feature wide-open windows, and developers purposely keep these giant windows throughout the apartments to fill the void with more natural daylight sources and to offer health benefits for their clients.

Along with this, looking at the rate of migration in urban areas, many builders and developers in India have started following the American movement of creating micro apartments that typically fall under 400 square feet of space. The micro-living lifestyle has helped us to reduce our carbon footprint, and it indeed created opportunities for people to purchase their own houses within an affordable budget, even in developed cities, but the option will also lead to an innumerable urban population.

Role of Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality in Interior Design

Earlier, interior designers used to draw and sketch designs on paper in 2D format, but these kinds of designs were hard to understand for clients, and they used to struggle to follow and understand the designers’ visualization. Then, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality arrived in the designing field and changed the entire scenario. The arrival of Virtual Reality helped the designer to explain to their clients what the project could look like if they followed a particular design, and that too in a 360 degrees viewing option, to see it from every angle.

In the case of Augmented Reality, it enables new-age clients to visualize the project even before it is developed, and they can even try numerous outcomes for their new project, such as the furniture, without paying a single rupee. Augmented Reality allows interior designers to showcase their vision to clients in the most straightforward possible manner. IKEA, a Swedish-origin company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, kitchen appliances and home accessories, has adopted AR in their new printed catalogues to help their clients overlay the physical world by using their phone’s camera and an AR app.

What is the Programming Language In Bitcoin?

SQL is a structured SQL query and successor programming language developed by IBM and used to communicate with databases to store, query, and manipulate data. C + + is a universal programming language with estimated 44 million developers. Its greatest strength lies in its ability to expand and run resource-intensive applications faster, making it the most popular programming language for 3D games.

It is one of the most popular programming languages in the world and is used by over 97M developers. Solidity, the programming language for smart contracts and smarten. bitcoin.wiki org shows in detail how solidity is a contract-oriented programming language for the writing of smart contracts. Solidity is used to implement smart contracts on different blockchain platforms. Ethereum has a head start in smart contracts, but many alternative blockchain platforms assure that they have solidity, a new and simple programming language that is popular and compatible with Ethereum developers, making it possible to port smart contracts from Ethereum to their new blockchain networks.

An early virtual currency that enjoyed huge popularity and success, Bitcoin inspired probabilistic programming languages like TensorFlow and a host of other cryptocurrencies in its wake. Unlike fiat currencies, bitcoin is created, distributed, traded, and stored using the Bitcoin SV programming language. Programming languages in Bitcoin are a topic that is often sought and liked by netizens.

Here is a summary of the different languages and the projects they use, which should serve as a basic understanding and basis for those wishing to immerse themselves in the industry. If you are looking for a programming language for Bitcoin, images, information, and links about it are of interest to you, visit the ideal site. If you’re a software developer or programmer, you’ve probably heard of blockchain. In this article, we will take a look at cryptocurrency projects and the languages they use.

The most popular programming languages for developing blockchains are Java, C #, JavaScript, Go, Python, Ruby, and Solidity. When it comes to the contents of transactions in Bitcoin, scripts are the most basic programming language for the computing process. For transaction processing, developers use scripts to create complex contracts and decisions based on transactions.

This is because there is no formal verification using mathematical concepts and functional languages are very close to mathematical principles. Mathematicians feel comfortable working with FP because they can easily apply programming concepts derived from algebraic structures such as monads, subfunctions, and defined theoretical concepts. The documentation suggests that the language is still in development and not yet ready for general use. It should be acknowledged that C + + is the predominant language for Bitcoin core operations. C + + programs are compiled with a C + + compiler, which has caused many developers to mix the two languages.

After the first developer meeting of the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) (SDP) ( ) meeting, the BCH programmers met for the first script meeting on the next day. BCH developers planned to talk about how to improve the scripting language for Bitcoin Cash and discuss reasonable optimizations. Following this meeting, the developers met on January 23 to discuss feasible optimizations for the language. Thursday’s SLP Developer Meeting was hosted by David R. Allen, a software engineer, who talked about Bitcoin Cash and the Script Roadmap. BCH developers Amaury Sechet and Mark Lundeberg gave feedback and suggestions for the roadmap.

The Aeternity blockchain supports Varna, a basic language inspired by the simplicity of Bitcoin scripts. Varna and Ethereum let you write code that specifies states and transitions between them. In other words, Varna is comparable to creating flowcharts and workflows in which contracts between different states are pushed back and forth until the end of a term is fulfilled. It depends on the cryptocurrency you want to create, the type of functionality and features you are looking for, and the characteristics of the token or coin.

In a recent podcast interview, C + creator Bjarne Stroustrup took a moment to explain how he feels that programmers can use his programming language for a variety of applications. David is a tech journalist who loves old-school adventure games like Techno and Beastie Boy. Blockchain Programming Programming in C + + is a free book by GitBook and is available here as PDF, EPUB, and Mobi versions.

Bitcoin mining is a secure way to not only earn bitcoin but also receive transaction fees for each block. A script is valid if the top and only remaining element on the stack is 1 or greater. The complete unlocking and locking of the script are valid as long as the output is enabled and output.

Once the unlock script has provided the initial lock script, we can drop it before executing the two scripts. The node combines and executes both scripts to ensure that they are validated. We first execute the full script, then the activation, and then return to the lock script. You can unlock by providing two different data strings to get the same hash result. You just have to hash out the same result twice. This script wraps around the p2sh lock script, so you will not see it before the lock script.

A common programming language, which is not often mentioned in the context of blockchain projects, appeals to developers to use it by opening an API and releasing sample code for the target API. All you have to do is write your code, fill in the fields and publish it, which means you can use any language library that makes it easy to send HTTP POST messages.

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All You need to know About Cardano And Its Founder

Cardano describes itself as a third-generation blockchain with use cases ranging from verification of references to decentralized financing (NFT). Like Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s first digital currency, Cardano uses blockchain technology. But unlike BTC, it’s faster, more scalable, and doesn’t consume as much energy. Cardano’s local cryptocurrency ADA is the third most valuable cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization. Although Cardano shares features and applications with other blockchain platforms such as Ethereum, it differs from others in its commitment to peer review, scientific research, and the building blocks of an updated, decentralized third-generation blockchain platform.

Cardano uses Ouroboros’s proof-of-stake algorithm to create blocks and validate transactions that take place on the platform. IOHK, which is responsible for setting up Cardano, works with a team of scientists around the world to conduct research and review platform updates and implementations to ensure that platform updates are scalable. Cardano stands out from other blockchain projects because it follows a data-driven, academic approach. The Cardano blockchain is based on the Ouroboros blockchain, the first proof-of-stake blockchain (PoS) to undergo peer review. A paper outlining a model and plan for the network is available to experts, engineers, and developers to contribute to the network layer, and a white paper has been published on Cardano.

Cardano is a decentralized open-source blockchain project created to facilitate peer-to-peer transactions. Cardano was founded by Charles Hoskinson, who co-founded Ethereum but left due to disagreements over how the platform should operate. The Cardano team decided in 2015 to do something different and build a local blockchain from scratch.

Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of IOHK, was responsible for setting up Cardano, started developing the platform in 2015, and launched it in 2017. Every step of platform development was reviewed by experts, rather than building a new blockchain from scratch. Hoskinson classifies Cardano as a third-generation blockchain, while Bitcoin and Ethereum are first and second-generation chains, respectively. Cardano considers himself an updated version of Ethereum and praises it as a “third-generation platform” with Ethereum’s “second-generation references.”. As such, Cardano places Ethereum in the “killer set” of third-gene blockchains to gain an advantage over its rival.

Cardano’s development and network upgrades have been reviewed and thoroughly tested by experts, resulting in slower rollout times. For example, it is more difficult for the United States to get out of its old system.
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson was speaking in South Africa during a pan-African trip that began last week. In a recent interview, he spoke about several issues related to Cardano and Ethereum. According to the founder of Cardano, the US Treasury has the power to destroy crypto.

Click here to read part two, in which Hoskinson discusses the decision of El Salvador to introduce bitcoin as legal currency and the promise of a digital central bank currency. Click here to read Part 3, in which he discusses the policy and regulation of blockchains, Bitcoin, and Cardano. Charles Hoskinson, one of the co-founders of Ethereum, joined the founding team of Ethereum 4 in late 2013 as one of eight founding members along with Vitalik Buterin. The technology company Input-output Hong Kong (IOHK) was founded by Charles Hoskinson. After a dispute with co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Hoskinson left Ethereum because Hoskinson wanted Ethereum to be a for-profit company, but Vitalik disagreed.

In 2017, Charles Hoskinson, one of the co-founders of Ethereum, Cardano launched a project by the technology company Input-Output (Hong Kong: IOHK) which is a public, open-source, decentralized blockchain with a Proof-of-Stakes consensus (PoS) system. The PoS system not only offers an advantage in terms of energy consumption and hardware requirements over Ethereum Proof of Work ( PoW ) but also allows Ethereum smart contracts and peer-to-peer transactions. A Smart Contract is a self-executing code that allows users to set payment terms.

Cardano’s layers mean it can process transactions much faster than many other cryptocurrencies. Cardano has the fastest Visa processing capacity, with 65,000 transactions per second (TPS). His next choice for the blockchain is altcoin ADA, which was introduced in 2017 and has since become the second-largest cryptocurrency after bitcoin and ahead of ether. He plans to wait for the ADA price to drop before he starts investing, but he says he will do what he did with Dogecoin.

Given his professional background as a mathematician and his history as a co-founder of Ethereum, he is well placed to understand the importance of the interaction between theory and application in blockchain development. Finding the right balance between the two is difficult and crucial to achieving mainstream adoption of crypto. Blockchain is still solving the puzzle of how to become the dominant platform in the coming years.

This code will be used by millions or even billions of people on a large scale to control much more than just where people live and where their money is. At some point, this could be made somewhat intuitive, but developing countries will lead the way in adopting cryptocurrencies and blockchains. Africa has proven to be a breeding ground for innovative crypto-technologies and founder Charles Hoskinson wanted to exploit this climate. A new blockchain among the top 10 coins was built by market capitalization when it was introduced in 2015. DCSpark is a sidechain that forms a bridge between the Cardano Foundation blockchain and other layers of the blockchain protocol.

In a proof-of-work system, it is a meritocratic mining process, mining a hash as if it were a lottery ticket. The main difference between proof of work and proof of use is that in the first phase of picking, no one is responsible.
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All you need to know About Binance And Its Founder

The Binance Exchange began operations in July 2017 and was founded by Changpeng Zhao (also known as CZ). Binance.us was set up in 2019 to comply with US regulations, as Binance itself has been banned in this country for over a year. A local subsidiary of Binance started trading in fiat and cryptocurrencies shortly after the start of the Fiat ramp-up.

Binance began issuing its first $200 million Binance coins in July 2017, after raising $15 million. Binance is known as crypto-to-crypto trading, which involves trading between two pairs of cryptocurrencies that do not have a national currency (such as the dollar or yen). Binance gained immense popularity due to its low transaction fees and the additional discounts users pay for BNB’s domestic cryptocurrency brands. Binance claims a high level of security, multi-level, multi-group architecture, and high processing throughput with the capacity to process up to 1.4 million jobs per second. Unlike other cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance offers services for trading, listing, fundraising, deregistration, and withdrawal of cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency enthusiasts who are willing to launch their tokens can use Binance to raise money through initial coin offerings (ICOs).

Global cryptocurrency exchange Binance and founder and chief executive Changpeng Zhao said their US arm will have an IPO in the next three years, it was announced on Wednesday. Binance will be the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange with an IPO, Zhao said. The exchange is used by a large number of traders and participants to exchange and invest in various cryptocurrencies.

Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance spoke on October 4, 2018, in St. Julians, Malta in the Delta Summit, Malta’s official blockchain and digital innovation event for promoting the cryptocurrency. The heavyweight task of overseeing Binance is growing in the US, which makes perfect sense. What makes Singapore-based Binance founder and CEO Changpenghao a multi-billionaire is that he is not only one of the richest and most powerful figures in the crypto industry, but also in global finance.
In May 2021, the US government is investigating Binance for tax fraud and money laundering, according to a Bloomberg report. The founder of Binance used to work at McDonald’s, sell his home, and gamble on Bitcoin. That’s the story Binance tells about the hundreds of people who built his platform and the millions of people who trade in it.

CZ is the founder and CEO of Binance, a company with over 400 employees and hundreds of millions in profits. The core story of the founder of Binance is that of Changpeng Zhao (CZ) who launched Binance in July 2017 and led its rise to become the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange in 180 days. CZ came to Canada from humble beginnings as a Chinese-born immigrant, taking various odd jobs to keep up with his family.

In an interview released on August 29, Binance co-founder He Yi said the company had learned from the Libra Association’s mistakes and had been working with regulators since the first day. In response, the Czech Republic has made efforts to transform Binance into a decentralized company with a nimble global workforce. Cz and Anthony Pompliano talk about their understanding that many others don’t understand, why they founded Binance as a company with 400 employees and hundreds of millions of dollars of profits, and how they are expanding their plans.

Binance’s CEO Changpeng Zhao appeared on RBC on Russian television and said that the ruble would be supported by a third party to facilitate trade in cryptocurrencies. Binance, the crypto exchange, is planning an IPO of its US offshoot in the next three years, said founder ChangPeng Zhao in a recent interview with Information Online. Binance’s U.S. subsidiary plans to go public in the “next three years,” CEO Changzhou Zhao said online. Mentioned by name, CEO Changpeng Zhao is reportedly on the verge of completing a large private fundraising round over the next two months that will reduce his control of the board.

The Thai financial agency filed a criminal complaint against Binance in July, accusing it of running an unlicensed digital asset exchange. In July, Binance said after being told to stop in July that it would no longer offer tokens to the CEO of CM Equity but said it was a business decision and would not be forced to stop. South Korean regulators did not follow Binance directly but warned cryptocurrency exchanges to register.

Binance has become the largest crypto exchange in the world and is the perfect stateless model for avoiding regulated activities. It does not yet have a home, which brings it more in line with cryptocurrency traders’ “distrust of the structures built by nation-states. Binance has moved to the US, where users of Binance.us, which is operated by a separate company, BAM Trading Services, have a smaller selection of tokens.

Last month, Brian Brooks, the head of the US offshoot of the global cryptocurrency exchange, stepped down after three months. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is facing several regulatory challenges that appear to be increasing. The stock market made $2.7 billion in trading in the 24 hours to Tuesday, a day off for the market, larger than rivals such as Coinbase.

Binance.us is the American partner of Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by market trading volume, founded in 2017 in China. Binance caught the attention of investors with lower fees than many other cryptocurrency exchanges, but we recommend paying a little more for more transparency. However, Binance stopped accepting US users in 2019 and announced it was working with a US-based version of its platform called Binance.com.
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Leh Ladakh in Volvo XC90 & XC60 / Luxury Road Trip

What would you do if you had unlimited time, money and resources? You would definitely strike off everything that comes on your bucket list, but unfortunately, we can’t have all of these above things together. You can earn tons of money which will buy you resources, but time, it’s the only thing you can’t buy, and that’s why we decided to strike off one more place from my bucket list and hopped on Volvo XC90 & XC60 to reach Leh-Ladakh via road from Delhi.

We fuel our bodies with food, our minds with knowledge, our hearts with love and our life with memories. When you’re on your deathbed, the only things that matters are the memories you created when you were fit and fine. It’s necessary to take time for things you enjoy in life, and what’s a better option to enjoy and create last-long memories than going on a luxury trip. Leh & Ladakh is a place that exists on almost every bucket list, and I’m no different from the majority.

Atal Tunnel

We decided to pick Volvo XC90 & XC60 cars for our ride to reach the lush meadows, Chinar forests, and apple orchards of Ladakh. We stayed for a night in The Himalayan, one of the top luxury boutique resorts in Manali and left towards our destination early in the morning. On the way, we drove on Atal Tunnel, which is named after India’s former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s name. Atal or Rohtang tunnel is a highway tunnel built under the Rohtang Pass in the eastern Pir Panjal Range of the Himalayas on the Leh-Manali Highway in Himachal Pradesh.

The 9.02 Km long tunnel reduces the travel time and overall distance between Manali and Keylong on the way to Leh, and currently, it is the world’s longest single tube highway tunnel at an altitude above 3,000 m(10,000 ft). Volvo XC90 and XC60 are two of my favourite cars from Volvo’s Swedish design and craftsmanship, but they have noticeable differences between each other. The major differences are that the XC90 can seat up to seven passengers while the XC60 can seat five passengers. The XC90 has an optional Recharge T8 plug-in hybrid powertrain, while the XC60 has a Polestar Engineered trim package paired with a plug-in hybrid powertrain.

The well-rounded SUVs have calm and collected interiors that keep you focused on the drive ahead, and that’s why we recommend you to either travel in a well-equipped SUV or don’t take more than two halts while driving towards up in the hills. More halts will eventually result in breathlessness, which is not a good thing to deal with when you’re travelling in high altitude areas. While driving in places like Leh and Ladakh, one must always stay aware of the situation because landslides are a widespread disaster.

The Hospitality of the Locals

People around the Leh & Ladakh towns are amicable and helpful, they’ll help you choose the best route to the destination, they’ll help you if your vehicle is stuck in the mud and the essential things they offer on these deserty roads is Dhaba-cooked Maggies, which tastes delicious. The roads around this region are dubious, has bumpy stretches, and are unpaved. So, if you’re not an experienced driver who’s comfortable driving in India, especially in the hills, self-drive is a big no-no for you.

Thiksey Monastery

The massage seats of the Volvo XC90 & XC60 are some of the bests I’ve ever been seated. The five preset massage programs are- Swell, Tread, Advanced, Lumbar or Shoulder. Thanks to these cars’ massage seats, we’ve reached the Thiksey Monastery in a single piece. The famous Buddhist Monastery is located on top of a hill in Thiksey, approximately 19 kilometres east of Leh in Ladakh. The 12-storey complex houses many items of Buddhist art such as stupas, statues, thangkas, wall paintings and swords. The views from the Monastery are breathtaking, and given its popularity, it needs no introduction about its beauty.

Nubra Valley

The valley is popular amongst the tourist for its orchards, scenic vistas, Bactrian camels and monasteries. Nubra or Ldumra (means the valley of flowers) valley is situated 10,000 feet (3,000 m) above sea level, and the common way to access this valley is to travel over the Khardung La pass from Leh. The Volvo XC90 and Volvo XC60 cars accompanied us to reach one of the most challenging terrains globally, and all happened because these two cars have a Hill-start assist feature. The advanced feature automatically stops your vehicle from backrolling when you press and release the brakes on an uphill gradient by holding the brake pressure. With that, we have covered a number of sites during our trip but left one of the famous spots for the next time, which is Pangong Lake. The Leh & Ladakh is truly a road trip that one will recall in the late years of their life.

What is the Potential That Blockchain Holds For Future?

Blockchain technology has turned the financial industry upside down, but its disruptive applications in finance are just the tip of the iceberg. Blockchain technology has the potential to drive major change and create new opportunities in industries such as banking, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and healthcare. Cybersecurity is one of the most promising growth areas for blockchain technology.

But Blockchain is its true reach – its ability to change the way people do things every day – like choosing, traveling, and even going to the doctor.

The blockchain landscape is growing, and new governance models are needed every hour. Current applications include a variety of sectors including finance, healthcare, contracts, and law, and new future applications are proposed for blockchain daily. The infographic of today comes from Hive Blockchain Technologies and gives us an insight into the potential of blockchain in the financial world.

New governance models will enable larger and more diverse consortiums to approach payment decision-making and approval programs and will help standardize information from different sources and to capture new and more robust data sets. Look forward to governance models that enable massive and diverse consortia with greater efficiency in decision-making and payment empowerment.

Developing regulations and standards to cover the blockchain will be no small challenge, and leading audit firms and bodies will have to contribute their expertise to this task. Accountants with a mix of business and financial expertise can position themselves as key consultants to companies that are approaching this new technology and looking for opportunities.

Many of today’s accounting departments are already optimizing blockchain and other modern technologies like data analysis and machine learning, which will increase the efficiency and value of accounting functions. Reducing the need for reconciliation and dispute resolution, combined with greater legal and regulatory certainty, will allow a greater focus on accounting when auditing transactions, allowing for the expansion of accounting areas. Parts of accounting that relate to transactional assurances made through the transfer of property rights are being transformed by an intelligent blockchain approach to contracts.

For example, using Blockchain to create a single source of truth for transactions between parties has the potential to reduce processing time and cost for insurance companies.

Blockchain also has potential applications beyond the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Blockchain can be used to facilitate identity management and to help obtain voter information for the proper functioning of the electoral process.

It is hard to imagine an area of life that is not suitable for blockchain upgrades. It would be a mistake to plunge into blockchain innovation without understanding how it is likely to prevail. If true, this could lead to the transformation of the economy and government that we have believed in for many years.

In the short to medium term, one possible path to the future of blockchain would be to deal with the relative immaturity of the technology in such a way that it gains importance through standardization and gains more acceptance in mainstream society. Blockchain technology is being developed to support the cryptocurrency market, but it would not be a big leap if it were applied to more established financial services.

Blockchain technology could allow banks to reduce excessive bureaucracy, speed up transactions at less cost and improve security and confidentiality. Two aspects of blockchain are, however, making it more difficult to take full advantage of technology, creating a new generation of small, innovative, and risky businesses that could disrupt existing industries and transform them if technological constraints are lifted.

Skeptics of the potential of blockchain technology, often associated with cryptocurrencies, to disrupt the way money and other assets are carried around the world say that the technology is not sustainable or efficient enough for mass adoption.

More and more people are already using Algorand for a wide range of applications – from the creation of carbon credit markets to speed up real estate transactions to creating new legal tender in the case of the Marshall Islands. Mainstream companies across all industries are interested, and in some cases will invest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain by 2021.

AMC, for example, announced that it would accept bitcoin payments by the end of the year. Fintech companies such as PayPal and Square are also relying on crypto to allow users to buy on their platforms. According to Accenture, 61% of aerospace and defense companies are working on blockchain and distributed ledger solutions.

In an interview with McKinsey’s Rik Kirkland, Don Tapsc Scott, CEO of Tapscott Group explained that blockchain is a distributed open-source database that uses state-of-the-art cryptography to facilitate collaboration and tracking all types of transactions and interactions. Blockchain technology has the potential to streamline all parts of inventory authentication, certificate tracking, and much more.

Blockchains, peer-to-peer networks that sit on the Internet, were introduced in October 2008 as part of a proposal for Bitcoin, a virtual currency system that evades a central authority for issuing currencies, transferring property, or confirming transactions. Fidelity Investment Standard and Charter are testing blockchain technology as a substitute for paper-based, manual transaction processing in areas such as trading and finance, foreign exchange, cross-border settlement, and securities settlement. The purpose of blockchains is to enable participants in a peer-to-peer network of value-sharing and interaction to create digital assets for each other without having to rely on intermediaries.

The Bank of Canada is testing a digital currency called CAD Coin for interbank payments. Nordea enables small and medium-sized companies active in international trading and has developed a trading platform called We trade with other major European banks, based on an IBM blockchain platform running on the IBM cloud.

IBM Blockchain Technology is involved in more than 400 blockchain projects in government, healthcare, transport, insurance, chemicals, oil, and more. The comments follow a recommendation by Jerry Cuomo, Vice President of IBM Blockchain Technology, and co-moderator Frank Yiannas, who has been appointed Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response at the Food and Drug Administration. American Banker recently published five questions to examine where the blockchain industry is heading.

The International Data Corporation (IDC) expects 35% of IoT deployments to be enabled by blockchain services by 2025. Combined with predictions that blockchain and IoT will strengthen in the future, blockchain technology provides a secure and scalable framework to facilitate communication between IoT devices. In addition, 68% of CIOs and CTOs see the need for scalable governance models to support the interaction of multiple blockchain networks.

Another layer of blockchain technology makes it easier to keep track of sensitive data when it is processed by accounting firms. Data tracking enabled by blockchain technology could help automate certain accounting services using artificial intelligence to reduce human errors and fraud. Bloom wants to bring credit scoring into the blockchain by developing a protocol to manage identity risk in credit scoring using Blockchain technology.

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What is DeFi? Everything you need to know!

A significant challenge drives energy into the cryptocurrency industry following asset values that are still 75% lower than they were at just the close of 2017. It’s called Defi, short for decentralized finance—the possibility that crypto entrepreneurs may reconstruct conventional financial instruments in a decentralized architecture, beyond the influence of corporations and governments. And with fresh allegations of misuse of funds against centrally managed cryptocurrency, the case for decentralized application has become even more compelling.

Total Value Locked in Defi Sector Reaches Record $13.6B. The US dollar value of cryptocurrency liquidity locked in all Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ventures has touched another peak.

Decentralized finance, or “DeFi” for short, is an umbrella term to describe any financial services that are built on top of public blockchains such as Ethereum and Bitcoin. It also incorporates all ICO operations, most of which are taking place in Ethereum.

The most popular types of DeFi Applications are Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs), stablecoins, wrapped bitcoins (WBTC), lending platforms, and markets without intermediaries. Through Ethereum, you can write an automated code known as Smart Contracts, in a decentralized manner.

Top 100 Defi Tokens by Market Capitalization

Complete Market Cap: $1944, 108,496

#	Name	Market Cap	Price	Change 24h	Change 7d
1	Bitcoin	$2,660,416,471	$22,991.92	-0.78%	29.18%
2	Compound	$1,242,539,891	$0.02	-0.02%	-0.48%
3	MakerDAO	$1,131,418,874	$1.00	-0.03%	-0.55%
4	Uniswap V2	$890,584,383	$4.14	9.30%	26.68%
5	Yearn.finance.Vaults	$835,365,341	$27,879.53	-1.15%	20.78%

Source: DeFi MarketCap

“Money legos has been coined to refer DeFi services.”

You can build different services from different money legos- Decentralized exchange aggregator to find the exchange with the best rate for swapping Ether for Dai. You can then select the DEX you want and conduct the trade. Further, you lend the DAI you received to borrowers to earn interest. Lastly, you can add insurance to this process to make sure you are covered in case anything goes wrong.

X-DEX.AG	UNISWAP	AAVE	NEWS MUTUAL
Locate Exchange	Trade ETH for DAI	Lend DAI for Interest	Ensure your funds

DeFi Offers:

True decentralization enables control evasion, worldwide cooperation regardless of background, and dispense with reliable third – party.
Using blockchain as a technical platform enables reasonably quick and low-cost money transfers, the immutability of financing, and contract automation.
DeFi applications typically allow the user to remain in the ownership of private keys.
Flexible User Experience.

Risks Involved:

Still in its infancy, which means anything can go wrong.
Smart Contracts have had issues in the past where people didn’t define the rules for certain services correctly.
Hackers previously have found creative ways to exploit existing loopholes to steal money.
If you decide to test out any of the existing DeFi services, make sure to do it with the amount of money you can afford to lose in case anything goes wrong.

DeFi & Bitcoin

Bitcoin itself, at the most basic stage, may be called an initial decentralized finance project. People who use Bitcoin, already operate as their banks (as long as they control their encryption information) and can freely exchange value with anyone they want anywhere. While this is the simplest type of decentralized finance, it may also be the most efficient. Bitcoin users can open “bank accounts” or new wallets in seconds. They can safely lock their wealth in a value that is secured by mathematics from arbitrary volatility, and they can spend that value as much as they want. The question as to whether or not highly advanced, decentralized financial services can transfer to Bitcoin is not a matter of what, but when. Over time, bitcoin sidechains will be able to provide services equivalent to what we’re seeing on Ethereum. Today, however because of its complex smart contract features, Ethereum is far better designed to control DeFi services.

However, new projects are already being planned for Bitcoin, including Bitcoin Hivemind. According to the website, Hivemind is a ‘Peer-to-Peer Oracle Protocol,’ which absorbs accurate information through a blockchain such that users of can make assumptions on marketplaces. DeFi services which are classified as Lending & Borrowing, Derivatives Margin Trading, and Prediction Markets are extremely valuable and efficient.

To sum it up DeFi has reached its early adoption stage and the coming years will tell if it manages to cross the chasm into mainstream adoption.

There is no doubt that a decentralized financial system can benefit a huge portion of the population that currently suffers from high fees, inefficiencies in managing funds, and financial discrimination.

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Dogecoin: Who let the “Doge” out?

After the Reddit board spoke about making it the GameStop cryptocurrencies substitute, Dogecoin, a digital coin originally introduced as a meme, recently plummeted over 800%. Dogecoin (DOGE) cannot escape its massive surge started by Wallstreetbets and is moving parabolic for the second day.

According to Cryptocurrencies, Dogecoin, which originated as just a joke or even an Internet meme centered on such a popular dog picture, has exploded in the last 24hrs. Dogecoin is a digital coin that is used for e-transactions, similar to bitcoin, and its meme has an illustration of the dog as well.

Even though in recent times it has taken a backseat to bigger cryptocurrencies like bitcoin as well as ether, its comeback from such a Reddit community entitled SatoshiStreetBets over the last few days has been due to passion. SatoshiStreetBets aims to pump up cryptocurrencies, like the group WallStreetBets, which was behind the GameStop rally.

Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency established back in 2013 by Australian businessman Jackson Palmer and Billy Markus, a software developer. It was supposed to just be a joke of the recent alternate coins, or “altcoins,” which was at the time were flooding the room. Dogecoin has a record of insane price fluctuations which are predominantly propelled by its prominence as just a humorous cryptocurrency. In the past, without any justification at all, TikTok challenges including popular celebrity appearances also added to its rise in prices, or other days, cryptocurrencies spikes.

DogeCoin

At the time, bitcoin had become more mainstream and other cryptocurrencies were being created. As of now, there are almost more than 4000 cryptocurrencies out there. As the hype surrounds one or another coin, they can spike in value (then crash). This is a way to pump and dump which is designed to artificially and temporarily inflate the value of DogeCoin. At this very moment, buying DogeCoin is a huge gamble, and definitely not an investment.

Thursday morning, 1 DogeCoin was valued at $0.05 but by this morning, its value is $0.07. Its total market cap was 8.2 billion dollars, making it the 9th largest cryptocurrency.

On Thursday, one post said the “crypto GME” was Doge. GME is GameStop’s portfolio ticker. This currency has been around since 2013, featuring a Shiba Inu dog on its coin.

It is surging as Reddit traders plummeting the cryptocurrency which started as MEME. The crypto-currency was never $1. Everything was priced around $0.000232 during 2013 when it started.

There’s been some significant fall in the market in the past several hours while the value of dogecoin surged. On the platform, Reddit users encourage folks not to sell but to “continue to push.”In order to buy these again at a cheaper price so that they too can accumulate the benefit, short-sellers borrow shares to sell them. There is no such shorting process at stake for dogecoin through hedge funds. Alternatively, a number of individuals appear to be simply striving to move the cryptocurrency further in order to get more money.

This is a subtle reminder to comprehend what is happening in the market, so one knows how tricked or trucked markets are!

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